Warheads v. Japanese Candy, the International Sour Candy Challenge!

Our story begins around June when Josh and I took our first trip to a Korean Costco in Busan. We were amazed to see that despite being in Korea, Costco was almost identical to any location you would find in the States (plus a lot of Koreans, different currency used and the existence of the bulgogi bake). And it was on this fateful day that Josh stumbled upon a large bag of Warheads in one of the isles. We made a lot of important decisions that day in Costco (buying 5 pounds of cheese, 4 pounds of bacon, 24 bagels and even a keg) but the one that stands out as the best was the large bag of Warheads.

And so it begins….the International Sour Candy Challenge

Josh’s plan was to introduce this candy into the remote countryside of Changnyeong. We started with the students, since the school we teach at is in the middle of nowhere and we get new students every week it was perfect, we would give each new batch of students their first Warhead and then film the whole thing. And the results were pretty epic.

During one of these experimentations in sour candy one of Josh’s students realized that he had already experienced sour candy…but with a Japanese candy. The student then gave Josh the bag of candy, which we ate immediately.

One weekend while shopping in Shinsegae (the world’s biggest mall) we came across the Japanese sour candy in the basement grocery store (which are very common in Korea).

Josh and I wanted directly compare the Japanese candies to Warheads…

Let’s meet the challengers!

Here is our first contender, the Super Soda (because it has fizzy soda powder in the center). The outside has sour powder over the blue candy shell which houses soda powder. Besides the fizzing it tastes pretty much like all other artificial candies that are blue.

Contender two, Super Lemon which is lemon flavored and has the outer sour powder but inside it is all sweet lemon candy (that tastes pretty much like a Lemon Head)

The third contender is this Super (insert Japanese here), this candy is like the Super Lemon, it has a sour-ish shell (that tastes exactly like Red Bull) which covers a hard candy (that tastes exactly like Red Bull).

And our final contender, Warheads.

For the results of the International Sour Candy Challenge…we definitely agreed that overall Warheads are much more sour! For taste, I chose the Super Soda and Josh chose the Super ____ (the one that tasted like Red Bull).

For sure, just funny to see the students going from excited to getting candy to shocked and then freak out from the sourness. So funny because after they are done eating the candy they always want another one!

I’ve been living in Japan for about 3 or 4 months now, and I was very surprised to find that the sour candy was very limited here. 😦 Also, Cinnamon is completely non-existent. However, I did try the Super Lemon flavor, and it was the closest I found to Warheads. However, there’s ANOTHER kind of candy here called “Shigge Kikkusu” (I hope I spelled that right.) Also very sour, and comes in three different flavors that I found so far–Grape, Soda, and Energy drink. If you guys get a chance, I highly recommend them. 🙂 Damn shame I can’t find warheads here in Japan though.

Thanks for the response!! When we were in Korea Costco was where we found the huge bag of warheads….not sure on the Costco situation in Japan but you might be able to find them if there’s a Costco, plus a bunch of other Western foods that might be a little harder to find. Next time I’m in Japan I’ll have to pick up the candy you recommended.